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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Popular works Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diarmuid Jeffreys |
ISBN: | 9781596918160 1596918160 9781408820421 1408820420 |
OCLC Number: | 879610692 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | 1. If you examine a man ... -- 2.bark of an English tree -- 3.puzzle takes shape -- 4.birth of a wonder drug -- 5. Patents, patients, and sell, sell, sell! -- 6.chemists' war -- 7. Civilization could disappear ... -- 8.aspirin age -- 9.moral collapse -- 10. Soluble solutions and costly competition -- 11. So that's how it works! -- 12. Affairs of the heart -- 13.twenty-first-century wonder drug. |
Responsibility: | Diarmuid Jeffreys. |
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'Fascinating ... Aspirin appears to be one of the most useful drugs ever discovered. Thanks to the work of all the scientists so deservedly recalled in this books, it is also extremely cheap: in fact no drug is cheaper. Perhaps there is something in the notion of providence after all' * Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph * 'This biography of aspirin has some cracking factoids' * Scotland on Sunday * 'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' * David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business Post * 'He tells a story which blends politics, big business, social and medical history, greed, incredible dedication and human folly in a lively page-turner read' * Irish Times * Read more...

